Iaso
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Greek goddess of recuperation from illness
Iaso (Panacea.
Description
Pausanias (author of , in the 2nd century A.D.:
The altar shows parts. One part is to
.
Aristophanes mentions Iaso humorously in Ploutos, when one of the characters, Cario, reports that Iaso blushed upon his passing gas.
In the temple of Amphiaraus at Oropus a part of the altar was dedicated to her, in common with Aphrodite, Panaceia, Hygieia, and Athena Paeonia.
Iaso had many children.
References
- Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Iaso". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 552.
External links
Media related to Iaso at Wikimedia Commons
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